Tag: ca:tws

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“I think people miss the concept. When you call the movie ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’, the notion of the Winter Soldier is from a quote from Paine about Summer Soldiers and Winter Soldiers. Winter Soldiers are the real soldiers ‘cause they are the soldiers who would fight through the winter. In a way, by Paine’s definition they are both Winter Soldiers, which is the great thing about the title.
People have said, “He is the titular character, why isn’t he more in the movie?” When really, Cap is the titular character. Cap is the Winter Soldier. The whole film is about a character who is the greatest of soldiers. He will fight through the darkest times and the coldest winter to see his principles through. That’s really what the movie is about.“

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“There was some debate whether to have this moment of memory loss but it just works so well in terms of everything  being taken from Steve. Even his one friend is ceasing to exist before his eyes. For us that was the most interesting component of him as a character: when do you get to see a character who has lost everything? Everything in his life is being stripped away from him. 
You could look at that Rip Van Winkle idea and play into the fantasy aspect of it all, “Oh isn’t it fun to go to the future and experience something you never would have?” But you equally have to appreciate the tragedy of it, the loss of it, the cost of it. At the end of the day, all great superheroes have something very tragic in their experience. And this is part of Steve’s tragedy.”

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“We stripped a lot of the color out of this film and out of the Marvel Universe. And it is all a choice that is a set up leading to that exact moment. When he returns to the uniform, he returns to his principles. The stealth outfit, the design of SHIELD headquarters The Triskelion – the grey and beige and sort of neutral colors that exist throughout the movie, the cold blues – are all there to serve in contrast and to represent the institutional nature of the organization and of the world that Cap is living in. And when he makes this choice to don his uniform, it’s the one real piece of color in the movie.”

jamie-sf:

Bringing over from weibo again since ONCE AGAIN someone cut the credits off.  @7thOrange on twitter and weibo.com/7thorange

and please, get the tineye extension for chrome (or whatever your preferred browser is). You can then right click any image and more often than not, it will find the original source for you. PLEASE do this. Credit is often times the only payment fanartists get and we want more awesome work like this!

agent13ofthessr:

alexander pierce and wilson fisk are the mcu’s scariest, most effective villains not because they can control armies of aliens/robots/whatever, but because they can control people. they are frightening because they are absolutely ruthless in the ways in which they manipulate, intimidate, and flat-out murder people to further their own ends.

they are believable because we can identify with their concern and love for those they care about; they do not exist in a vacuum. they have daughters and grandchildren and girlfriends and mothers, and they care about their loved ones. 

and they are horrifying because they believe that what they are doing is right. they aren’t in the game for the sheer love of being evil; they’re in it because they believe so fervently that their way is the best way–because they conflate the expedience of eliminating “undesirables” with doing the right thing.

pierce and fisk are terrifying and i love it.

writing trauma & survival: a Marvel primer

ladyofthelog:

After several months of reading and writing in Marvel fandom, I decided that I wanted to write a primer on trauma from the perspective of being a trauma survivor and coming from a disability studies background. You might be interested in the stuff in here if you’re writing about Bucky post-CATWS, Sam’s counseling practice, or the experiences of any number of Marvel characters. I’m drawing on a variety of articles, zines, and books, all of which are available to read online or download.

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